Film Director Carlos Saura has just released his latest film featuring an incredible number of fabulous flamenco artists: Sara Baras, Farruquito and his 13-year-old brother El Carpeta, Eva Yerbabuena, Jos?? Merc??, Estrella Morente, Mar??a Pages, …
The flamenco film version of Carmen came out in 1983; it was a collaboration between Antonio Gades and the director Carlos Saura and is the second film in Saura???s ???flamenco trilogy???. The stage version of the production had been premi??red on…
After Camar??n released his groundbreaking flamenco album called La leyenda del tiempo in 1979, a few years later a film/documentary was made, bearing the same name. la distribuidora Intermedio ha publicado en dvd ???La leyenda del tiempo???. Esta…
The first FFLAC Festival Internacional Flamenco de Cortometrajes was held at the Sala Berlanga in the Instituto Bu??uel in Madrid from 3 to 5 September 2010, where 26 short films (cortometrajes) which were selected for the Finals were shown. The j…
This well-produced B&W film from 1960 recreates the atmosphere of the famous Caf?? de Chinitas in M??laga (1857???1937) in the caf?? cantante period of flamenco???s history. The film features singers Antonio Molina and Rafael Faria, as well as the…
During 1939, when Carmen Amaya was in Cuba, she made a short film called El Embrujo del Fandango (The Bewitching Fandango). One of the central moments in the film is when Carmen Amaya dances a stylised form of fandango called El Embrujo del Fandan…
After last week’s silly indulgence of seeing Manolo Caracol in Embrujo, I feel we need something with some serious flamenco performances, so I have chosen Los Tarantos featuring two superb dancers Carmen Amaya and Antonio Gades. Los Tarantos is a …
Embrujo (bewitched) is a black & white film dating from 1947. It wasn’t well received in its day by the critics, and I hope you will excuse my indulgence, but I have to say that I enjoy watching the flamenco singer Manolo Caracol from Seville with…
Now the cover of this ‘flamenco’ version of Mariana Pineda, carries the warning: ‘sobre un idea de Federico Garc??a Lorca’; in other words, don’t expect to see Lorca’s play. The flamenco dancer Sara Baras has used the character of the legendary Ma…
I was pleased to read an interview of Wim Wenders where he speaks about continuing work on his 3D documentary film about the dancer Pina Bausch, who unfortunately died in June 2009 ??? she died only five days after being diagnosed with cancer. I, …
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